How do these contain random files like this? Isn’t it just a file that applies some kind of visual effect to the media player?
The author touches on this near the beginning-
Winamp skins are actually just zip files with a different file extension
So they’re treating them like archives and extracting them
I take issue with “everything”, as most things are not. But it is a common trick when a developer wants to make a “new” file format that encapsulates a bunch of different files.
They’re zip files, with the extension renamed. So you could probably have almost anything in one.
Oh so they’re actually created the same way as a zip file? That makes sense I guess. Thanks.
It is literally a zip file. If I remember correctly you have to write some xml which describes the layout of the skin and then include any images you need, you then zip it and change the file extension to wsz. So really you could put anything in a skin.